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uBar 2
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Spaces Support
Just bought the Anarchy Bundle as I wanted to try out uBar.
It's pretty nifty so far, but just one piece of feedback and it's a bit of a deal breaker.
Can we get support for spaces? My whole workflow is based around having multiple spaces for different tasks. At the moment, uBar just displays all the open applications across the system - not for that specific space.
When working with 8 spaces, this makes it pretty unusable and I tend to have multiple applications open on each space.
I'm not sure on the technical restrictions, but hopefully this is something that could be achievable.
Just bought the Anarchy Bundle as I wanted to try out uBar.
It's pretty nifty so far, but just one piece of feedback and it's a bit of a deal breaker.
Can we get support for spaces? My whole workflow is based around having multiple spaces for different tasks. At the moment, uBar just displays all the open applications across the system - not for that specific space.
When working with 8 spaces, this makes it pretty unusable and I tend to have multiple applications open on each space.
I'm not sure on the technical restrictions, but hopefully this is something that could be achievable.
I'm looking into this - it's extremely high on the todo list. Long story short, Apple rewrote the entire way spaces work internally as of 10.8, and the new private API is complicated so there is research involved.
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Thanks
The calendar stuff should be fixed soon. As for Photoshop, some apps don't use AppKit so they don't implement Accessibility properly. Unfortunately unless Adobe fixes this there is not much to do.
Ah, favourites … that work, that are persistent. Yes, I favour that type of favourite. So much better than Apple's more modern approach – losing favourites for removable media :-/
~/Library/Favorites
as the left-most item in my Finder toolbar.
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Oh wow I just noticed that - well done!!! That is a very interesting idea.
Finally*, an update!
Release notes for 2.4.4
Release notes for 2.4.4
- Feature: Dock Defaults and Taskbar Defaults buttons in Preferences under General
- Feature: New option to set whether grouped window lists display when left-clicking (Suggested by Melvin Cappellato)
- Feature: Sunrise calendar app now supported (Suggested by James Bradley)
- Feature: Option to allow the Dock to overlap in Preferences under Advanced (Suggested by Kevin Roberts)
- Tweak: Slack app now has higher badge update priority
- Tweak: Preferences window shows up after Continue is pressed in Welcome window
- Fix: Eliminated a memory leak (Reported by Ilsa Loving)
- Fix: Can now remove first favorite when Desktop is not included (Reported by Adam Jones)
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Oh, I was just kidding … too obscure. Sorry. Michael Tsai is the chap who began gathering information about Apple’s Software Quality Decline in October 2014 … various people suggesting that with rapid development, quality has suffered (discussion).
It's the opposite with uBar 2 – rapid development with good quality. I was being ironic (I haven't reported you
It's the opposite with uBar 2 – rapid development with good quality. I was being ironic (I haven't reported you
Thanks for the default buttons.
What does left-click mean though? Don't we automatically left-click? I know you do a right-click with the command button.
What does left-click mean though? Don't we automatically left-click? I know you do a right-click with the command button.
Oh, I was just kidding too obscure. Sorry. Michael Tsai is the chap who began gathering information about Apples Software Quality Decline in October 2014 various people suggesting that with rapid development, quality has suffered (discussion).
It's the opposite with uBar 2 rapid development with good quality. I was being ironic (I haven't reported you
Hahaha
I do my best! I feel a rapid-improvement strategy is appropriate for uBar so long as there is low-hanging fruit. It looks similar to how it did 6 months ago, but there is _much_ more polish and attention to details. It's helpful when I have tons of smart people emailing me with extremely detailed suggestions and ideas Some stuff on the todo list is going to take some more serious engineering, so I'm keeping that for later. In the meantime, I try to check the todo list for any bugs, low-hanging fruit, or very popular requests. In the meantime I'm trying to keep uBar's prefs from looking like the cockpit of a 747 - this is fundamentally a Mac app, of course.Yep I put the default buttons because there are quite a few options that make the difference between a Dock and Taskbar and so I can't just say "toggle titles and change window grouping" to make it a dock vs taskbar anymore. It also helps combat the notion that uBar is a Micro$oft Windows XP Taskbar for Mac
The Left-click to display grouped window list option is the default behaviour of listing windows when left-clicking an app that has many windows. I made it possible to disable it, which makes the window-list show in the right-click menu instead. This is important for people that want to configure uBar more like the Dock.
Is there a way to show the title of a folder in the favorites area? Or some way to distinguish folders, like using a custom icon?
I'm trying to use folders of aliases as a group launcher, but they all look alike.
I'm trying to use folders of aliases as a group launcher, but they all look alike.
Hmm... A custom icon would definitely work for the folders. Otherwise the only title is the tooltip.
Hahaha
Oh, now here's a strange coincidence a few minutes ago whilst following links from the 2015-01-11 update to Michael Tsai's http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/01/06/apples-software-quality-continued/ I found myself listening to something from 2014-10-10
through which I learnt of the Control key effect. Yeah, I'm one of those people who doesn't always read documentation ;-)
I couldn't get the effect at first, soon realised that I had to show names. Of course I couldn't resist toying with other preferences so now I have PID numbers too, for some apps. I don't expect to use window IDs (I'm not a developer) but PIDs are useful, in a geeky way.
Strangely, I find the clock launching BusyCal even after I used RCDefaultApp to set Calendar as the default for all things that it can handle. Maybe a restart of the OS will resolve the discrepancy watch this space
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Yeah I'm not a documentation type of guy either, which is why the uBar documentation is not very detailed... Something I have to work on
It's hard to show activity mode without the title space, but I'm determined to somehow do it... Will keep thinking (usually at this time Jessica comes up with the solution
)Right now the calendar detection is a bit crude... It just checks for other calendars, and prioritizes them over Calendar.app. I need to figure out if there is some way to officially figure out what the default calendar is to do it properly.
Control-point behaviour (a thought)
Before experimenting I expected a popover, for one application at a time, when Control-pointing at the icon of the application.
If that idea is reasonable, then I'd expect addition of the Shift key to show activity mode for all running items in uBar. Not an array of popovers (!) so maybe Control-Shift-point (or Control-point-Shift) could temporarily:
Before experimenting I expected a popover, for one application at a time, when Control-pointing at the icon of the application.
If that idea is reasonable, then I'd expect addition of the Shift key to show activity mode for all running items in uBar. Not an array of popovers (!) so maybe Control-Shift-point (or Control-point-Shift) could temporarily:
- expand the bar to include title space; and
- show activity in each space.
uBar 2
Pffft.
I don't see why you couldn't just have it expand to show the activity even when it's without titles. I don't have a problem pointing at it because I use a wireless keyboard and trackpad, but that would get annoying on a MacBook.
EDIT: Which is what grahamperrin already said.
Pffft.
I don't see why you couldn't just have it expand to show the activity even when it's without titles. I don't have a problem pointing at it because I use a wireless keyboard and trackpad, but that would get annoying on a MacBook.
EDIT: Which is what grahamperrin already said.
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Pffft.
I don't see why you couldn't just have it expand to show the activity even when it's without titles. I don't have a problem pointing at it because I use a wireless keyboard and trackpad, but that would get annoying on a MacBook.
EDIT: Which is what grahamperrin already said.
I thought of that. Expansion is not necessarily the way to go because if someone has a filled row already, there is no room for text... Expansion would require adding rows temporarily in those cases, which is a big deal.
Thanks - my pleasure!
Ok this is an interesting one. Separators (gaps) to help differentiate the areas, and a fix to the infamous auto-hiding bug when switching to and from fullscreen spaces.
Release notes for 2.4.5
Release notes for 2.4.5
- Feature: Show Separators option for Favorites area under Preferences
- Feature: Portuguese (Brazil) localization added (Thanks to Caio Botafogo)
- Fix: Auto-hiding now works correctly when switching to fullscreen windows (Reported by Thomas McMahon)
- Fix: Auto-hiding is now respected when uBar windows such as the Preferences window are active (Reported by Robert Camner)
- Fix: Welcome window now respects Allow Dock Overlap option (Reported by C. Spencer van Gulick)
I sorta feel like the separators shouldn't touch the edge like the one in the dock. But nice idea!
A couple tweaks and a fix. Something big coming for 2.5.0
Release notes for 2.4.6
Release notes for 2.4.6
- Tweak: Favorite separator now uses foreground color
- Tweak: Badge update priority increased for Postbox and Outlook (Suggested by Chris Caddell)
- Fix: Force Quit now works (Reported by Bastiaan van den Berg)
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Moving towards version 2.5, here are some tweaks and fixes pushed for 2.4.7.
Release Notes for 2.4.7
I'll reveal a hidden 2.5 feature that is in 2.4.7 here: uBar will override app icons using whatever is at ~/Library/Application Support/uBar/Icons/
The icons must be named as follows: bundleIdentifier.ext
Example: com.apple.finder.png
You can download the iOS set I am using here.
Release Notes for 2.4.7
- Feature: Help buttons added to Preferences
- Tweak: Window count is slightly faded in App titles
- Tweak: Clock shows more information when using two lines on large size
- Tweak: Unpinned corner radius adapts to to size
- Fix: Clicking the clock area launches the default calendar app for ICS files
- Fix: uBar no longer moves to corner on Logout
I'll reveal a hidden 2.5 feature that is in 2.4.7 here: uBar will override app icons using whatever is at ~/Library/Application Support/uBar/Icons/
The icons must be named as follows: bundleIdentifier.ext
Example: com.apple.finder.png
You can download the iOS set I am using here.